A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
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Production | Alysa Nahmias | Consulting Producer |
Production | Rachel Nederveld | Producer |
Production | Maida Brankman | Executive Producer |
Production | Jolene Mendes | Line Producer |
Production | Alison O'Daniel | Producer |
Production | Wendy Ettinger | Executive Producer |
Production | Elizabeth Skadden | Producer |
Production | Eliza Moley | Co-Producer |
Camera | Derek Howard | Director of Photography |
Camera | Judy Phu | Additional Photography |
Camera | Meena Singh | Additional Photography |
Editing | Zack Khalil | Editor |
Production | Su Kim | Producer |
Production | Maya Rudolph | Producer |
Production | Michael Kinomoto | Supervising Producer |
Production | Sally Jo Fifer | Executive Producer |
Production | Lois Vossen | Executive Producer |
Sound | Nial Morgan | Boom Operator |
Directing | Alison O'Daniel | Director |
Editing | Alison O'Daniel | Editor |
Writing | Alison O'Daniel | Writer |
Sound | Christine Sun Kim | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Steve Roden | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Ethan Frederick Greene | Original Music Composer |